I arrived with trepidation, since this cinema has had pretty disappointing projection for the last few movies I've seen here. The Sprint "please silence your cellphones" image was on screen 'til about 4 minutes past scheduled start. When the motorised curtains widened for cinemascope presentation and the trailers began, the first trailer was for Up In The Air, and it abruptly started half-way into the trailer! Never got to see the first part. But this is a trailer I saw the night before a the Alamo, and I got the feeling it was "zoomed in" ie. the edges of the picture were missing, perhaps, projected off the edge of the screen. A trailer for The End Of Poverty definitely had some picture, including subtitles, off the bottom edge of the screen. An Education finally started, looking pretty sharp around the edges with no black anywhere on the screen, and no visible parts of the film clearly off the edges of the screen.The sound was adequate, that is to say, this movie could probably do with better sound presentation, but it's no Michael Bay picture. It sounded like it could have been an optical soundtrack, it had that olde-world optical feel noticeable at the beginning (harder to notice once you're used to it by the middle of the story). No artifacts or clicks/pops however.
The biggest problem, one which had me cleaning my glasses, was that the picture was jumping up and down very quickly, and by a very slight amount. This was most noticeable on high-contrast edges, for example the glint in characters' eyes, or static or moving credits. Generally a lack of clarity to the image. This was very disappointing in otherwise what was probably the best image I've seen at this cinema in a while. I very much hope that a twist of the projector's shutter knob is all that is needed to correct this.
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